MALIK AMEER & LORIN BENEDICT: Home Is Where the House Is
Edgetone, 2011

EXPERIMENTAL HIPHOP / JAZZ – OK, this is different. Malik Ameer raps over oddball grooves and arresting layers of scat singing (or “phonemic emanations” as they put it) by Lorin Benedict. The scat sounds like some kind of encrypted poetry, and the twisted, abstract raps are delivered in an urgent but fractured manner that throws everything off balance... if it ever was in balance. It’s all pretty damn cool. FCC clean except 9 & 10.